Talks
2023
The Evolution of Digital Art
Bright Moments, London, 15 June 2023
The V&A's copy of Agrippa
Symposium on Agrippa: A Book of the Dead
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 18 May 2023
2022
In Our Code: A Panel Discussion on Generative Art
Unit London, 29 September 2022
Volker Hermes’ Hidden Portraits: a new voice in an old world.
Contemporary perspectives on old masters.
Art History Festival, Association For Art History, 20 September 2022
Video introduction to In Our Code
Group Exhibition, Unit London, September 2022
Casey Reas & Douglas Dodds. Historical Narratives of Generative Art.
Unit London, Unit-On-Chain Podcast, 14 September 2022
(Plus transcript published by Unit London)
Ex Machina: A History of Generative Art
Panel Discussion, Phillips London, 12 July 2022
(Plus transcript published by Right Click Save)
History of AI in Art: Computer Art
Gazelli Art House, London, 11 January 2022
2021
Deciphering Dickens Workshop: A Christmas Carol
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 22 November 2021
Deciphering A Christmas Carol
Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 2021
Dickens in the Digital Age
V&A, 18 February 2021
1: Intro & Digital Projects 2: Editing Dickens 3: Deciphering Texts
2020
Deciphering Dickens: Online Transcribe-a-thon
V&A, 10 December 2020
From Dartmouth to Singularity – Evolution of AI
Panel Discussion, ArtProject2020, Vancouver, 14 November 2020
Vision and Accident: Creating the V&A’s Computational Art Collection
Pre-histories and Futures of Machine Vision,
V&A, 28 February 2020
2019
Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers
Chester Visual Arts, Chester, 21 August 2019
Deciphering Barnaby Rudge
Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 2019
2018
Introduction to Chance and Control
and Digital Art at the V&A
Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers,
V&A, 26 October 2018
Deciphering Little Dorrit
Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 2018
A Sentimental Journey Through South Kensington:
Laurence Sterne and the V&A
‘Alas, Poor Yorick!’: A Sterne 250 Years Anniversary Conference, Jesus College Cambridge, March 2018
2017
Godwin, Digitisation, and the V&A’s Literary Manuscripts
Digitising William Godwin's Manuscripts, V&A, London, December 2017
Engaging With Code: A V&A Perspective
British Computer Society, London, July 2017
Esther Rolinson in conversation with Douglas Dodds
Watermans, London, 7 June 2017
Collecting Digital Art at the V&A
The Tetley, Leeds, 28 April 2017
Manfred Mohr in conversation with Douglas Dodds
Carroll Fletcher Gallery, London, 1 February 2017
2016
Presentation at What is the Digital Draw? Drawing Room, London, 18 April 2016
Collecting Computer Art at the V&A
Presentation at Bot Summit, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 9 April 2016
2015
Curating Futures: A History Of Digital Collecting At The V&A
Alterfutures, Machine Room, London, 3 June 2015
By Appointment to Victoria and Albert
Brown and Son: Purveyors of Digital Images Since 1968
Watermans Gallery, London, May 2015
Collecting Digital Art at the V&A
Lumen Prize exhibition, Crypt Gallery, London, May 2015
2014
Underground or Overground: Which Line to Take for Digital art?
Computers and the History of Art Conference, Kings College London, October 2014
From Analogue to Digital: Documenting the History of Computer-Generated Art and Design
Bard Graduate Center, New York, November 2014
Documenting the New Medium: The V&A’s National Collection of Early Digital Art
AAH Conference, Royal College of Art, April 2014
Entartete Kunst: Fate of Germany's Degenerate Art Revealed
BBC News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Scotland, etc, January 2014
2013
From Analogue to Digital: Collecting Computer-Generated Art
De Montfort University, Leicester, October 2013
2012
Ernest Edmonds In Conversation with Douglas Dodds
Site Gallery, Sheffield, November 2012
Visual and Material Cultures: Art & Design in the Digital Age
Postgraduate course, University of Sussex, Spring term 2012
2011
The Museum and its Objects: Digital Art And Design
Undergraduate course, University of Sussex, Autumn term 2011
From analogue to digital: collecting, displaying and preserving algorithmic art at the V&A
Research in progress seminar, University of Sussex, 2011
2010
Codifying history: the CAT Project examines the international trajectory of computer art 1975-2000
ISEA2010, Dortmund, 27 August 2010
Virtual and Actual: Library, Archive and Museum Collaboration at the V&A
ARLIS/NA Conference, Boston, April 2010
Digital Pioneers
Radio talk for Furtherfield, Resonance FM, 6 April 2010
Erosion or Evolution? Scholarly Art Publishing in the Twenty-First Century: a V&A perspective
College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 12 February 2010
The National Collection of Computer-Generated Art and Design at the V&A
Decoding the Digital Conference, Victoria and Albert Museum,
4 & 5 February 2010
Digital Pioneers: computer-generated art from the V&A’s collections
Ideas before their time: connecting the past and the present in computer art, British Computer Society, 3 February 2010
2009
From analogue to digital: preserving early computer-generated art
Paper presented at Fear and Learning: Approaches to the Born-Digital Challenge in Art & Design Archives, 11 November 2009
From Analogue to Digital: the V&A’s online catalogue
Presentation at Yale Center for British Art seminar held at National Portrait Gallery, London, 4 November 2009
Virtual and Actual: library, archive & museum collaboration at the V&A
Paper presented at American Association of Museums annual conference, Philadelphia, May 2009
2008
Library, archive and museum collaboration at the V&A
RLG Programs Annual Meeting, Paris, 6 November 2008
Collaboration in practice: investigating early digital art at the V&A
ARLIS/UK & Ireland conference, Liverpool, 25 July 2008
Computer Art and Technocultures: evaluating the V&A’s collections in the digital age
EVA conference, London, 22 July 2008
Providing access to cultural heritage at the Victoria and Albert Museum
ARLIS/Norden conference, Reykjavik, 12 June 2008
Computer Art and Technocultures: evaluating the Patric Prince Collection in the digital age
V&A Research Department work-in-progress seminar, 25 April 2008
2007
Evaluating the V&A’s prints and drawings collections
Politics, History and Memory Symposium, Brighton University, 2007
Computer art then and now: evaluating the V&A’s collections in the digital age
Computers and the History of Art conference, London, 2007
